The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-28
THE GAME CANNOT BE BEATEN.
Experience of Men Who Have Tried
to Get Ahead of the Dealer in Faro.

had an extraordinary experience a few
days ago with one of the most noted and
successful gamblers in America He is a
sallow man with a keen, dark eye, bald
head and tranquil manner l have known
him for many years, and he is famous
figure of the town We occupied adioin-
ing chairs, quite by accident coming from
Philadelphia. and we talked about gambling
in New Y orli on the way.
Il have heard goo1 many stories,"
! said, of high playing uptown within the
past two weeks Is it really SOP
II have been in New York twenty-five
years" said the gambler, quietly, and l
have never known them to roll as high as
they are rolling now. There is a combina-
ton of four Jews who are playing faro in
fashion that would make the old Mississippi
gamblers hold their breath. Every bet is
four figures, and they have crippled D--'s
bank to the tune of $4,000 in three nights.
1t is a curious thing, by the way, that nearly
all Hebrews will bet recklessly on cards,
though they are SO cautious i'll business mat
tors. They are in some respects the best
gamblers l ever played against If Jew
sees chance of getting back a dollar by
taking risk, he will take the risk every
time"
''Are most games straight now in New
York;
II don't know crooked game in the
whole city. The fact is that gamblers have
learned at last that it is just as easy to run
straight as crooked. The percentage in
favor OF the house is enough to make any
man rich if he sticks to the game 1t is exact
~ like any other business. A merchant who
is straight will succeed, and merchant
who is crooked will fail in the long run
There are lot of flash mushroom estab-
lishments along Broadway which show up
-, t-l,
go under. They can't last if they are
crooked. The straight houses come out
ahead"
mentioned the name few moments
later of a well known actor, who has pre-
objection for high play, and the gambler
said, with a chuckle: 'ss
THAT particular actor made s., 005 in the
course of an hour few nights ago."
Howe"
ga friend of his, a gambler in very hard
luck, went to the actor and said he had a
friend from - of town who was anxious to
play against zee bank, and he suggested that
the actor and 3he other should go in and
fleece him at faro. They went TO a skin
gambler on SixSA avenue and got him to
open a faro barr: with stacked cards, and
about IL O'Clock at mig ht the actor and the
countryman came in together. They had
agreed to pool their issues and the actor
put up 81 ,005 against a similar amount by
the countryman They then took their
S2.010 and the actor agreed to do the play
ing. Within half an hour the money was
all gone, the lights were turned out, and
the countryman was sent on his way. Then
the gambler went up to the actor to get his
half of the money, but he got nothing. The
actor took the 81 COS, gave the dealer $3.50
for his trouble, and left town the following
day $3.50 ahead The busted sport who en-
gineered the whole thing has got his revenge
by telling everybody about it."
If Iwere to give the name of the actor
who INDUCED in this transaction it would
cause an immense amount of astonishment
as his newspaper interviews are invariably
full of bitter and heartfelt woe at the pre-
valence of gambling in America
1t occurred to me a little later that it was
a good opportunity to introduce a m IN who
had system for beating games of chance to
the gambler. L told blm about my friend,
and he said that no system was ever in
vented that could play successfully against
luck.
Well said /, 1.-The man whom have in
view has been sending me letters and tele-
grams about his particular discovery, and l
would like to have you look at it,
Il will examine it with great pleasure"
said the gambler, heartily; eff you will
both come around to my hotel this after
noon, but l tell you beforehand that you
will go away convinced that no system can
play against game in which chance figures
an important factor. have been i'll this
business a great many years, and | have
made and lost many fortunes, so that speak
by the card. .....
At5o'clock that afternoon telegraphed a
man that had a new system (he is Colonel
OF milltia) and we went together to the no.
tel. We were met by the sailow- faced man
OF chance, and he wandered up to mis- room
ahead of US. He opened a little leather satch-
Ell, took out faro box put IL on the table,
and then brought out a number of cards
with the seals still unbroken. / ought to
state that the Colonels system had been
tested with extraordinary success by all the
devices that we could call to mind, and that
he had continually and persistently come
out ahead. The gambler ran his slim fingers
over the faro box and said:
DO you thing Herman, Goldberg, or
Keller knew anything about cards. Be
cause If you do will prove to you that they
are shoemakersn
He then asked me to select package of
cards and shuttle them. did so.
Now he said, ''name any card you
please and you will find it between my leg
and the chair.n
ANY one of the SO cardsP'
ANY one
The eight of spades"
he shufiied the pack twice and then asked
me to look on the chair. did so and took
the eight of clubs from beneath his leg. He
mad found it and distracted it from the
pack while shutting them and placed it there
without our being able to detect him. He
Then amused and astounded us by forcing
Tour kings or four aces to come to the top
OF the pack whenever he wanted them, al
though we shuffled the cards, and later he
dld what | consider the most extraordinary
rick that can be performed in this world;
lie would take fresh pack of cards and
deal them rapidly in the regular way, ex-
cept that he would deal us three hands pre-
clsely as we called for them. To this he was
obliged TO read the back of the cards and
extract them from different places in the
pack with such marvellous quickness that
the eye could not follow him. After he had
thus proved that no man could play with a
professional gambler who had any desire TO
be crooked. he took his faro layout and be-
gan to knock the Colonels system to splin-
ters Before he had operated five minutes
the Colonel slammed his fist on the table and
sad emphatically:
Il have seen enough TO make me decide
right here that win never play another
game OF faro as long as l live"
The gambler could at will by touching
certain springs IN his box force all low cards
or all high cards 30 come mp IN turn, and,
IN Tact, had as much command over the box
as though that little silver device was hui
man Every card no called for came nj his
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